Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting. The painting "Water Lilies" changed the way that people viewed art, in terms of realism, and it as well changed the way that people made art, and approached art. The point, or the intent of impressionist painting is to model the painting after the object that is seen, and being painted or drawn, but to not copy the object exactly. In the painting, Monet used a lot of paint, and thick brushstrokes in order to get the painting to look like a pond with water lilies. He used light blues and greens and browns, however, he did not paint exactly what was there, but he painted what the pond looked like in general, with a few of his own twists, and styles. It is evident that in his painting, there is not as much detail, and intricate design as there would be in the real scene, and this was his idea, and his approach to how the painting should be painted, it was his "impression" of how he viewed the scene. In the foreground of the picture, the water lilies are somewhat detailed and big, and then as the painting moves further back, the lilies get smaller, and the attention to detail is not as fine. I think that this painting is very interesting, and very important to the history of art, because this painting was being painted in order to show the world that art was not just one idea, and that it was important to paint what you saw, along with personal style. Monet helped define history with this painting.
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very insightful and well-informed. why, do you think, did the impressionists want to make paintings that did not look exactly like the real thing? what were they hoping viewers would get from their work?
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